Field Rat

#Overview

The Field Rat is the most widespread tier-3 pest. It is in the tier-3 pool of six biomes: Peel Forest, Compost Caves, Coin Laundromat, Frozen-Fries Tundra, the Fry Palace Drive-Thru and Gutterball Lanes. On Normal, tier-3 pests spawn from 6:00 to 16:59 (from 7:00 on Easy), and between 5:00 and 9:59 a Field Rat can be the minute's elite. Rats also keep appearing after that window, because every Harvest Mouse splits into three of them when it dies.

It is a plain chaser that runs straight at Tibo and hurts only on contact, but it is fast. Its speed of 50 is the highest of any tier-3 pest and only 12 below Tibo's base move speed of 62. It has 42 base HP and deals 11 damage. Its mass of 0.2 trims knockback by 20%. A kill gives 4 XP and an 8% chance of a coin.

Rats that come out of a Harvest Mouse are full Field Rats, scaled to match the mouse they came from. See the Harvest Mouse page for details.

#Tips

• Outrunning rats takes a long time: at base speed Tibo gains only 12 units per second on them, and less once curse or overtime speeds pests up. Killing them is usually better than trying to kite.
• When a Harvest Mouse dies, its three rats start right on top of where it fell, already close to Tibo if it was killed up close. Killing mice at range gives you time to deal with the rats.

#Stats

Base values before time scaling and difficulty.

#Where it appears

• Coin Laundromat, enemy tier 3
• Compost Caves, enemy tier 3
• Frozen-Fries Tundra, enemy tier 3
• Fry Palace Drive-Thru, enemy tier 3
• Gutterball Lanes, enemy tier 3
• Peel Forest, enemy tier 3
• Russet Moor, enemy tier 1
• Split from Harvest Mouse

Biome tiers: each biome lists five enemy tiers; higher tiers appear as the run goes on (see Enemy scaling).

#Names in other languages

Verified: the name the game shows when another language is selected in Settings, from its translation files.^[1] See Languages.

#Data

{
  "id": "field-rat",
  "behavior": {
    "kind": "chase"
  },
  "hp": 42,
  "speed": 50,
  "damage": 11,
  "radius": 6,
  "xp": 4,
  "goldChance": 0.08,
  "mass": 0.2
}